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Norman O. Brown

Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence.

Norman O. Brown

Poetry

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Norman O. Brown suggests that freedom in poetry means deliberately bending language and logic to create new meanings.

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